Review: Amazon Heat – Rayna Vause & Melinda Leigh

Amazon Heat by Rayna Vause and Melinda Leigh
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Release Date:  January 9, 2012
Publisher:  Carina Press
Page Count:  71
Source:  NetGalley
Buy the book at: Amazon 

2 years ago…
Driven by grief to find a cure for cancer, Elizabeth DeMarco left Logan Spencer to accept a position on a research expedition to the Amazon rainforest. Kidnapped by guerrillas, she was saved by a secret all-female civilization, the last of the ancient Amazons. But Elizabeth discovers she’s traded one form of captivity for another. 
Today… Logan never stopped searching for Elizabeth. While consulting in the remote Brazilian interior near where she was kidnapped, Logan suffers what should be a fatal fall. Near death, he’s collected by the Amazons and magically healed. Elizabeth is the first person he sees as he wakes. But there’s no time for a joyful reunion. The Amazons’ mystical medicine is rapidly changing Logan. They want his DNA and plan to take it—and then kill him. Logan and Elizabeth must escape before dawn or Logan—and their second chance at happiness—is doomed. 

Elizabeth DeMarco is a research botonist who’s soul purpose for being in the Amazon jungle was to try and find plant life that would garner the cure for cancer.  She’s left everything and everyone behind in hopes of saving others like she couldn’t save her mother or sister.  The cause is noble, but even from the very beginning seemed a little shortsighted.

When the Amazon warriors rescue her from a kidnapping attempt, she figures she’s been saved.  She didn’t know that she was just in another form of kidnapping.  She never attempts to escape, just keeps going on doing her research, blah, blah, blah.

It’s not until her jilted lover/boyfriend, Logan Spencer, is brought into the Amazon Valley that Elizabeth develops a sense of needing to run away from the Amazons.  Suddenly, the possibility of Logan being gang raped by a bunch of crazy women has lit a fire under Elizabeth to get the hell out of Dodge.

Logan is one of those men that we all hope our significant others will be should some dyer situation come up where we’re missing.  He never gave up looking for Elizabeth. She broke his heart and left him, but he takes every opportunity to trudge through the Amazon jungle looking for her.  Despite the anger he felt when she left him, he still knew that Elizabeth was the one for him and just about sprayed her with his desire.  Logan was hot, I’m just not sure Elizabeth was the the one for him.

A lot is crammed into this short read.  While the premise of the storyline is promising, I just couldn’t get past my dislike of Elizabeth to fully enjoy what was happening.